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Variance swap
A variance swap is a financial derivative whose payoff is equal to the difference between the square of annualised realised volatility (that is, the annualised realised variance), sigma_{realised}^{2}, of returns on the underlying price over that period and a fixed quantity, sigma_{strike}^{2}, sometimes known as the variance strike.
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